Success of Outlander television series help Diana Gabaldon's novels return to the best-selling charts

00:01, 7 Oct 2014

ByScotland Now

FOUR of the American author's eight book series have reappeared on best-seller lists after the success of the Outlander television series.

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Claire and Jamie

Diana Gabaldon 's Outlander novels have returned to the top of the best-selling charts after the success of the television show.

American author Gabaldon's eight book series have become a phenomenon selling over 25 million copies worldwide.

After the show’s premiere on Starz in August, the first novel topped the best-seller list for the first time, 23 years after it was published.

And new readers have became instantly hooked with the next three books in the series also reappearing on best-seller lists.

The show follows Claire Randall, played by Caitriona Balfe, a married former nurse living in 1945 who travels back in time to eighteenth-century Scotland. While there, she meets and falls in love with Scottish actor Sam Heughan who portrays Jamie Fraser, and is torn between staying there and going back to her husband, Tobias Menzies’s character Frank.